Panel discussion
Catherine Cannizzo (she/her) is a postdoc at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and earned her PhD from UC Berkeley. Her interests include symplectic geometry, homological mirror symmetry, and Fukaya categories of Landau-Ginzburg models. While at Berkeley she served as the webmaster for the women-in-math group Noetherian Ring and now co-organizes the Western Hemisphere Virtual Symplectic Seminar, and a reading group in Symplectic Group Action centered around Black Lives Matter. She came out as a lesbian during graduate school and hopes to pay forward gratitude for those who paved the way before her. She enjoys dancing ballet and drawing digital art.
Tyler Kelly (they/he) is an assistant professor and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Before, Tyler obtained their PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 and then held an NSF Postdoc at Cambridge. Tyler's research is in algebraic geometry and mirror symmetry, studying the mirror symmetry of Landau-Ginzburg models. They also are active in the LGBTQ+ STEM community, as a member of both the LGBTQ STEM Project's Steering Committee and the London Mathematical Society's Women and Diversity in Mathematics Committee.
Evelyn Lamb (she/her) is a freelance math and science writer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She received her Ph.D. in math from Rice University in May 2012, and was a postdoc at the University of Utah from 2013-2015. Her writing appeared in a number of media outlets such as Scientific American and Quanta Magazine. Her AMS Page a Day Calendar was published by the American Mathematical Society, and she is co-host of the podcast My Favorite Theorem.
Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez (He/They) is a queer, chronically ill, Costa Rican-American mathematician. Andrés was raised in Lynwood, South East Los Angeles, California and is a first-generation college graduate. Currently, Andrés is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and a Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. Andrés completed his PhD at the University of Kentucky, where he was also an affiliated graduate student in the Latin American Studies program and earned a graduate certificate in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/a Studies. Before that, Andrés earned a master's degree in mathematics at San Francisco State University and an undergraduate degree in mathematics at UC Berkeley where he also minored in Philosophy and Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies. Andrés' research interests are in algebraic and geometric combinatorics.
Katrin Wehrheim (they/them) is an anti-fascist revolutionary by calling and a global analyst by training. Applying this training to questions in low-dimensional topology and symplectic geometry - while appeasing the power structure with women-in-math outreach activities rather than addressing the real problems - led them to hold positions at ETH Zurich, Princeton University, IAS Princeton, MIT, and UC Berkeley. After gaining tenure, despite losing the battle for proofs in symplectic geometry, their main learning-and-doing has been on matters of fascism, racial capitalism, genocide accountability, reparations, and justice at large. More recently their identities are combining into attempts to "teach mathematics to counter oppression."